[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: SUPPORT: Lynne Stewart (2013-01-18)

Mon Jan 21 16:19:15 PST 2013

Check this out.  There are some audio links to listen to at the bottom of the e-mail. Thanks.

Sincerely,

John Thielking

--- On Mon, 1/21/13, Donna Wallach <palestineis at dslextreme.com> wrote:

From: Donna Wallach <palestineis at dslextreme.com>
Subject: Fwd: SUPPORT: Lynne Stewart (2013-01-18)
To: "SBM" <sbm at lists.riseup.net>, "South_Bay_Activists" <south_bay_activists at yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, January 21, 2013, 12:14 PM

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From: Uncle Don B Fanning
Date: Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:29 AM
Subject: [south_bay_activists] SUPPORT: Lynne Stewart (2013-01-18)
To: "[south_bay_activists]" <south_bay_activists at yahoogroups.com>

SUPPORT: Lynne Stewart (2013-01-18)

From: Jeff Mackler jmackler at lmi.net>
To: mumia-alerts at mailman.lmi.net
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:17:37 -0800
Subject: [unac] Urgent! Lynne Stewart's illness returns and legal update

Please forward widely

Lynne Stewart Emergency Alert!

Dear Friends,

Below you will find today's critical communication from longtime 
Lynne Stewart supporter, Betty Davis. The information concerns 
Lynne's health and her legal status.

As you will read below Lynne's breast cancer has returned. Lynne was 
successfully treated, we had hoped, two years ago and given a clean 
bill of health, as much as such diagnoses can be counted on. But a 
single spot was found on one lung a few months ago. Now another has 
appeared on the other lung and others in her upper back, all 
associated with her original breast cancer.

Her husband Ralph Poynter told me today that Lynne's condition was 
still very treatable and that a cure was not at all to be ruled out 
and especially so if prison officials allowed her the expert 
treatment afforded her previously in a prominent New York City 
hospital. Lynne's request to be moved to that facility was denied. 
She is to be treated in a prison related facility, but fortunately 
under the direction of and using the protocols of her 
doctor/daughter, who is expected to be with Lynne at any moment.

We are still hopeful for a positive outcome, even under the most 
difficult conditions.

Meanwhile, Lynne's appeal preparations for a hearing before the U.S. 
Supreme Court are now in progress, with Lynne having assembled a 
first rate team of attorneys including members of the Center for 
Constitutional Rights and the National Lawyers Guild.

Lynne campaigned for Mumia's freedom for the several years that she 
was free on bail and traveling the country in her own defense. She 
was present at Mumia's court hearing in Philadelphia and appeared on 
Democracy Now!, with Mumia phoning in in her defense.

I urge you to carefully read the material below and lend a hand. The 
stakes are high. We will continue to demand the finest medical 
treatment for Lynne and, of course, continue to campaign for her 
freedom and immediate release.

Lynne, a prominent civil rights attorney of 30 years, was the victim 
of a government-orchestrated 2005 frame-up trial that was riddled 
with violations of fundamental legal principles. She was convicted on 
five counts of conspiracy to aid and abet terrorism. This was based 
on the government's charge that her public issuance a press release 
on behalf of her client, the "blind sheik" Omar Abdel Rachman, an 
Egyptian cleric who was similarly framed up and imprisoned for life 
on "terrorism" charges, was illegal.

Ironically, Rachman's freedom is today being demanded by Egypt's new 
President Mohamed Morsi.

Lynne, 72, was originally convicted and sentenced to 28 months in 
prison, but this "light" sentence was contested by the reactionary 
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and her sentence was 
outrageously increased to 10 years, by the compliant Federal District 
Court trial judge, John Koeltl.

I urge you to write to Lynne and convey your love and solidarity. She 
toured the Bay Area several times in previous years, always speaking 
to admiring and stunned audiences, who realized that Lynne's case was 
central to everyone's civil liberties. Lynne's conviction was a 
message to all attorneys that defense of the unpopular, defense of 
democratic rights and especially defense of Muslim victims of 
government persecution, was dangerous. Lynne's conviction and 
extended sentence served to massively chill the defense bar.

Lynne's freedom and life itself in large part depends on our solidarity.

Write Lynne at:

Lynne Stewart 53504-054
Federal Medical Center Carswell
P.O. Box 27137
Fort Worth, Texas 76127

Send your generous contribution payable to:

Lynne Stewart Organization
1070 Dean Street
Brooklyn, New York 11216

In solidarity,

Jeff Mackler, West Coast Coordinator
Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
510-268-9429
jmackler at lmi.net

- - -

URGENT MESSAGE OF APPEAL FOR LYNNE STEWART- THE PEOPLE'S ATTORNEY

Greetings

It is urgent that you listen to the audio email below. It 
is the latest update from Ralph Poynter, Mya Shone & Ralph 
Schonmann about LYNNE STEWARTS fate in prison.

Lynne Stewart's breast cancer is spreading to her lungs and 
shoulders. She needs immediate treatment NOW. The prison 
authorities have known
this since September.

WE ARE ALSO IN THE PROCESS OF 
LAUNCHING HER APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT. DEADLINE FEBRUARY 21, 2013.

All we are asking you to:

Listen to the audio below and update yourself on the facts. Check out 
the website as well.

Write a letter of support to Lynne Stewart- 53504 - 
054, FEDERAL MEDICAL CNTR, CARSWELL, P.O. BOX 27137, FT. WORTH, 
TEXAS 76127. You don't have to write the prison authorities because 
THEY READ EVERYTHING WE SEND AND TELL HER SO.

Send this email out to all your listservs, especially to LAWYERS 
because we are asking ALL ATTORNEYS SUPPORT HER CERT , (A REQUEST FOR 
THE SUPREME COURT TO HEAR HER CASE.)

When it comes to the oppressed, there is no such thing as law or 
justice. THEREFORE, the movement determines the argument before the 
courts, not this myth of justice before the law. We need attorneys 
who understand this and understand that LYNNE STEWART was one of the 
very few attorneys who understood this. She never had her political 
prisoners surrender their right to self defense or self 
determination. In her trial when questioned she still defended this 
human right and her right to give her clients the best defense 
possible. When she was resentenced from 28 months to ten years, one 
of the reasons was that SHE "SHOWED NO REMORSE." SHE DOES NOT FEEL 
REMORSE FOR DEFENDING THE BILL OF RIGHTS, therefore, we should defend 
her and all POLITICAL PRISONERS.

BETTY DAVIS
NEW ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT

-----Original Message---

But, to listen to the report, go to:

128 kbps version (hi fi):
http://www.takebackwbai.org/lynnestewart/2013-01-16.LynneStewartReport-128.mp3

32 kbps version (lo fi):
http://www.takebackwbai.org/lynnestewart/2013-01-16.LynneStewartReport-32.mp3

Please listen from the links here in this email. Let me 
know what you think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Abdel-Rahman

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